COAR Notify

Welcome to COAR Notify!

On January 28, 2021, COAR launched the COAR Notify Initiative. It extists to develop and accelerate community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach (using Linked Data Notifications) to link research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services, such as overlay-journals and open peer review services. This will enable the creation of a global, decentralised, and transparent notification infrastructure for research outputs, which will be of great value to the research community, including researchers, repository managers, and service providers.

The COAR Notify Protocol is a set of profiles, constraints and conventions around the use of W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) to integrate repository systems with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.

Specification
The COAR Notify Protocol consists of documented community conventions for the use of W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) to integrate repository systems with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.
Implementation
This implementation Guide supports the community of developers either considering or actively implementing COAR Notify. However, anyone else with an interest in the COAR Notify Initiative may also find this handbook informative.
Adoption
Notify is starting to be adopted by repositories and other systems to satisfy a number of use-case and scenarios. Examples of these, with implementation details, are documented here.


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COAR is extremely grateful for the generous funding support from Arcadia, a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. COAR has been awarded a US$4 million grant from Arcadia, which will go towards the COAR Notify Project. The funded project began on July 1, 2022 and will last for four years.